The Early Bird: November 7, 2008
Change.gov President-elect Barack Obama has unveiled a new website to inform the public about the transition to the White House and solicit ... in a team of finance experts next week to figure out how to recoup insurance payments from patients' private insurance or Medicaid coverage. For years the county has failed to go after the insurance [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 14:12:33
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How Medicaid, Medicare, Medical Insurance can Help Your Health
by Marie Brown The state of health insurance right now is nothing less than atrocious ... . You have other options as well. For example, there are many government funded Medicare or Medicaid health insurance programs which might be advantageous to you. Just to name a few, there is Medicare [more...]
Date: 2009-02-17 13:47:01
Health Care Progress
The Senate passed a bill yesterday that will expand health insurance coverage for children ... from Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program for five years after they enter ... insurance in favor of government-funded health care. If only. Orrin Hatch, on the other hand [more...]
Date: 2009-01-30 20:15:50
Sleuth Secrets for Finding the Best Nursing Homes and Assisted Living
Host: Anti-Aging Psychologist Dr. Michael Brickey Guest: Pat Dismukes Broadcast and podcast starting: Feb. 23, 2009 on webtalkradio.net ... Comparison Guide shares her sleuth secrets for getting the best possible care. I supplement her advice ... you will pay for it (private health insurance, long-term care insurance, Medicare, Medicaid) Note [more...]
Date: 2009-02-25 03:52:54
Here we go: Mandated Health-Care for Every American......
Enforced through the tax system.....sweet........ Senator Takes Initiative on Health Care - NY Times Without waiting for President-elect Barack ... on Wednesday to guarantee health insurance for all Americans by facilitating sales of private insurance, expanding Medicaid and Medicare, and requiring most employers to provide or pay for health [more...]
Date: 2008-11-12 18:56:01
“Right to Die” Can Become a “Duty to Die”
OrthodoxyToday.org | Wesley J. Smith | Mar. 1, 2009Imagine that you have lung cancer ... Stroup had prostate cancer. Both were on Medicaid, the state’s health insurance plan for the poor ... as you are from a State Medicaid program. In this case the drug in question was both expensive and highly unlikely [more...]
Date: 2009-03-02 19:07:00
More Than 150 Amputees to Converge on Capitol Hill
On March 10, the Amputee Coalition of America will have more than 150 amputees from across the country in Washington, D.C ... Compensation insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP [more...]
Date: 2009-02-26 00:32:45
Lobbyist Cat Fight over Health Care Reform: PhRMA vs. AHIP
As the Obama health care summit gets under way today a bit of a schism is erupting, with the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) on one side and and insurance industry lobbying outfit America's Health Insurance Plans ... bought through Medicaid. On balance, they figure with expanded coverage they'll make out pretty [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 17:30:33
Are You Ready For The Democrats To Start Running Your Health Care America?
Because mandated health insurance is now, officially, on the agenda ... of the Finance Committee, will unveil a detailed blueprint on Wednesday to guarantee health insurance for all Americans by facilitating sales of private insurance, expanding Medicaid and Medicare, and requiring [more...]
Date: 2008-11-12 18:37:36
Our neighbor to the east
Vermonters' favorite state to criticize is New Hampshire (with New Jersey a close second) ... by private health insurance and onlly 6% by Medicaid. In Vermont 72% of the under 65 population are covered by private health insurance and 24% --nearly one quarter--are covered by Medicaid, at a large [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 14:02:25
Chipping Away At Medical Bankruptcy With SCHIP
As a bankruptcy lawyer in Indiana for the past quarter century, ... to provide health care coverage for children in families who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid, but who cannot afford to buy private health insurance. Funding for SCHIP, as with Medicaid, is a federal [more...]
Date: 2009-03-04 12:57:30
The Growing Conservative Divide
While conventional wisdom is that the GOP is quite pleased with itself for having stood united against the stimulus package and, remarkably, ... of everything from high finance to the ordinary workplace. The Democrats are expanding Medicaid to crowd out private insurance. The federal government wants a huge new role in redirecting private investment [more...]
Date: 2009-02-16 12:52:14
Breakaway
So I haven't been writing much about my life lately. Not nearly like I did just a year or so ago ... in and buy it for 75 dollars. Eighty one with tax. If you have Medicare or Medicaid your insurance ... issue. I have trouble knowing that I am making my money off of insurance companies pretty much [more...]
Date: 2009-02-13 02:05:00
Here I Go Again
I’m on the mission of getting Elijah a Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) AGAIN! I’ve been down this road before ... on being a parental advocate for a special needs child. We got into medical insurance and Medicaid issues at the last session. (Eli receives SSI for his blindness therefore also has Medicaid alone [more...]
Date: 2009-02-24 19:39:01
2009 Economic Stimulus Package Recap
It’s officially called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This plan comes in at $787 billion ... stimulus, but it will keep teachers, cops, and firefighters employed. It will also help with Medicaid ... your insurance for 9 months. Infrastructure: Although you may not use the facilities being [more...]
Date: 2009-02-17 10:51:43
Thinking Ahead
LaHonya Ortega v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Case No ... about the effects of insurance, Medicaid and other issues on potential payment for surgery [more...]
Date: 2009-02-13 14:58:40
Levine: GOP Would Kill Economy to Destroy Unions
Art Levine: Even as the auto industry teeters on collapse, union-bashing continues as the mainstay of a GOP propaganda war against organized labor. With three million jobs at stake, potentially costing taxpayers $150 billion in unemployment insurance, Medicaid, other aid and lost tax revenues, unions remain the primary targets of the GOP blame [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 14:31:23
Free Market, Literally Shop till You Drop Health Insurance Reform.
I came across this definitive critical dissection of the Republican free market plan for health care reform that will explode the idea that this is a viable alternative. It’s based on deregulating the insurance companies, so your able to buy ... and affordable health-care system. Our current multiple insurance system (Medicare, Medicaid, Workman's Comp [more...]
Date: 2009-02-28 05:03:00
Links With Your Coffee - Wednesday
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Religious 'shun nanotechnology'Attitudes to nanotechnology may be determined by religious and ... , disabled and poorer citizens the nation’s first universal national health care insurance, Medicare and Medicaid. 'Richard Dawkins interviews Father George Coyne' by Richard Dawkins, RichardDawkins.net [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 17:16:16
Economic Stimulus Helps Vets and Others with Disabilities
The massive $797 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (“ARRA”, HR 1) helps veterans and other people with disabilities ... in applications, including funds for electronic medical records, as well as additional funds to replace Social ... insurance, they often qualify for Medicaid, which puts huge demands on already cash-strapped states [more...]
Date: 2009-02-19 22:53:02
Medicare decision demonstrates the true future of rationing
Does anyone really doubt that the government will use rationing to control medical “costs”. Here is a timely example just within the last two weeks of CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ... to insurance variations in coverage. They can now add CMS to that list. Is it hard to imagine [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 06:31:21
Cobb County Refuses To Pay Grady Hospital Extortion Money
I used extortion in the title because that is exactly what it is ... patients. Patients who either have no insurance or have Medicaid. Grady Hospital has a long history ... which results in millions of dollars of lost revenue simply from their incompetent billing practices [more...]
Date: 2009-01-27 16:37:13
Decision to Revoke ‘Conscience Clause’ Faces Mounting Criticism
Posted by Bill on March 3rd, 2009 In a statement last Friday, Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) ... to such programs as Medicare, Medicaid, the newly expanded SCHIP insurance program for children ... of us will go to jail” before being forced to perform medical procedures against their moral beliefs [more...]
Date: 2009-03-02 23:31:31
I Don’t Understand People
People like Kimberley A. Strassel, anyway: It began one week after the swearing-in, when Nancy Pelosi whipped through a big expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program ... . ... Under “stimulus,” Medicaid is now on offer not to just poor Americans, but Americans [more...]
Date: 2009-01-31 01:45:50
News Of The Day
News Of The Day October 29, 2008 Regardless of whether the GOP ticket wins or loses next week, ... the state out of its fiscal crisis. Paterson wants an increase in federal funding for Medicaid, unemployment insurance and public works. The Post thinks Albany needs to fix its own problems [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 12:30:02
Texas pay too little for doctors taking CHIP or Medicaid patients
Republicans have found so many creative ways to stop children from getting health care ... Insurance Program and Medicaid, but even if they succeed, those kids may have a tough time finding doctors ... they would take on new Medicaid patients. The numbers were even lower -- 34 percent -- for CHIP [more...]
Date: 2009-02-15 16:25:00
Telling the families, so scared!
I am terrified about telling my and my DB's families that I'm pregnant!! It wasn't planned of course.. ... that lives with us most of the time. I recently lost my job and health insurance (trying to get on Medicaid!) Anyway, DB wants to tell everyone like right away!! We have told some friends but none [more...]
Date: 2009-03-07 02:37:03
FMAPped
While it won't solve the state's budget deficit by itself, ... in Medicaid -- the federal health insurance program for the poor -- along with foster care and adoption ... a $320 million increase in federal Medicaid reimbursement payments will likely be an important [more...]
Date: 2009-03-03 05:40:40
Stimulus Finalized Without Medicaid Family Planning Expansion
Well, the other shoe has dropped. The economic stimulus package has been finalized, and it does not include the straightforward provision allowing states to extend Medicaid coverage ... to their health insurance; with that, their ability to afford contraception. As they downsize and plan [more...]
Date: 2009-01-27 20:11:34
COVERAGE: COBRA Out of Reach For More Jobless
It's worse than we thought. No not just the economy, although we say that pretty much every time we look at the headlines ... , and the relatively few people who lose their jobs who can afford to extend their job-linked health insurance ... as more short-term Medicaid and SCHIP options in the stimulus package to help more people stay covered [more...]
Date: 2009-01-28 17:15:00
The challenge of children's coverage...
Cross posted at the Health Access WeBlog. Last week, Families USA released a report, Left Behind: America's Uninsured Children, ... ), public insurance programs like Medi-Cal (Medicaid) and Healthy Families (SCHIP) were more than picking ... reauthorization of the State Child Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), throwing California's version [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 21:56:16
Dead party walking
In today's "Montana Republicans are batsh*t crazy" news, state House Republicans offer a "compromise" on CHIP funding :
 ... and Medicaid, another government health insurance program.
 "I think that this amendment takes ... for an expanded health insurance program for Montana children....
 Rep. Penny Morgan (R-Billings) offered [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 16:25:23
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Date: 2008-12-16 23:30:04
HEALTH: Baucus Plan Highlights Importance Bipartisanship and Cost of Inaction
This post also appears on the National Journal's Health Care Experts Blog. where you can also see what other health policy analysts have to say ... will become eligible for Medicaid or some kind of safety net insurance. This occurs just as states ... in the unemployment rate leads to roughly 1 million more Medicaid and SCHIP enrollees. Senator Baucus' [more...]
Date: 2008-11-14 18:20:08
Spending, spending and more spending in Santa Fe
Now that the election is over and attention can once again focus on our great state of New Mexico, ... . Take us out. And those are just the discretionary spending disasters. The rolls of Medicaid ... can have their insurance paid for by hard-working folks [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 19:09:54
Sebelius and Health Services in Kansas
When the New York Times was touting Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius's thin qualifications to be secretary of Heath and Human Services, ... government the job of serving as watchdog over Medicaid, MediKan and Children's Health Insurance ... the only one they could come up with other than being the insurance commissioner of a state [more...]
Date: 2009-03-02 12:44:27
Chicago health care - coming soon to a hospital near you
Chicago health care - coming soon to a hospital near you Posted by Michael Laprarie Published: March 4, 2009 - 11:53 AM From the Chicago Tribune, ... began pressing her about insurance. "I asked them why that should matter. My child's lip was literally gone," said Adams, a medical assistant whose only insurance is her son's Medicaid coverage. [more...]
Date: 2009-02-28 04:02:25
Senate Centrists Win Battle of School Construction; "Hang Tough" against Kids
If you claim to embrace the center, like Republican Senator Susan Collins does, ... can defeat her: Two major sticking points heading into final negotiations were the increased Medicaid ... and insurance companies get under TARP. [more...]
Date: 2009-02-12 13:39:00
Reminder: what the election was about
Unemployment is up, state and local tax revenues are down. Along with their jobs people are losing their health insurance. Their sole remedy will be Medicaid, jointly financed by the states and the federal government. What a great time to cut the federal share of support: Read the rest of this post... | Read [more...]
Date: 2008-11-09 20:08:00
North Carolina's share of federal stimulus to be around $6B
North Carolina is expecting to receive $6.1 billion from the $787 billion federal stimulus package, with the biggest chunk - about $2.35 billion through 2011 - helping the state to provide Medicaid health insurance for low-income residents, according to preliminary figures compiled before the bill passed Congress Friday. [more...]
Date: 2009-02-14 04:16:06
'We've been through tougher times' Highlights of USA TODAY's interview with President-elect Barack Obama, ... — whether it's Medicaid reimbursement, unemployment insurance, what have you. Those are the most [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 14:42:06
It's Official: Presidential Advisor Announced at Special Olympics
From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Feb. 12, 2009) ... health insurance or other assistance, Biden said. Advocates have long complained that programs like Social Security Disability Insurance, Supplemental Security Income, Medicaid and Medicare essentially [more...]
Date: 2009-02-13 19:10:56
Don't You Have To Win In Order To Take A Victory Lap?
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) has created a YouTube video set to the tune of Aerosmith’s “Back In The Saddle” boasting that zero ... Medicaid to crowd out private insurance. The federal government wants a huge new role in redirecting [more...]
Date: 2009-02-17 18:15:52
Obama's Healthcare Initiative: $634 Billion is a Good Start
Obama's Healthcare Initiative: $634 Billion is a Good Start Posted Sat, 02/28/2009 - 08:07 by GreyHawk From Reuters: ... those savings will help the federal Medicare and Medicaid health insurance programs. The budget ... published studies showing that moving from paper medical records and prescribing to electronic technology [more...]
Date: 2009-02-28 16:07:09
The Baucus Health Plan & The Tax Incentive Tweak
During the presidential campaign, progressives criticized Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) ... expands Medicaid, Medicare and SCHIP, creates an insurance exchange, allows Americans to buy into a new ... for dismantling the employer-based health insurance system by exposing employee tax benefits [more...]
Date: 2008-11-13 00:00:11
Cornyn Votes Against SCHIP
Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. John Cornyn is a leader with no followers and a heartless bastard ... at families earning too much money to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to afford private insurance ... business and Cornyn doesn't believe Americans, especially children, need health insurance. The vote [more...]
Date: 2009-01-30 15:39:04
Economic history from the last great depression
Robert Higgs, senior fellow in political economy for The Independent Institute, ... -warming research, urban mass transit, food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, or countless other [more...]
Date: 2009-02-13 03:14:01
Considering the Provider Side of the Healthcare Equation
The Physicians Foundation has released a report chronicling the growing frustrations of primary care physicians in America ... of running a practice are high and insurance payments for many routine procedures continue to decrease ... private insurance companies often emulate. In fact, Medicare and Medicaid are becoming such money losers [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 14:24:12
David Frum: The party that lost its mind
Have you heard about the marsh mouse? The little swamp critter that got $30 million of stimulus bill spending thanks to Nancy Pelosi? ... to the ordinary workplace. The Democrats are expanding Medicaid to crowd out private insurance. The federal [more...]
Date: 2009-02-16 18:00:00
New HHS Regs Would Hit Low-Income Women, Women of Color Hardest
As if they haven't done enough, the Bush Administration is making one last attempt to undermine women's reproductive freedom ... health insurance of any kind. Public programs such as Medicaid and Title X fill that void by covering ... . The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently proposed a regulation that it claims [more...]
Date: 2008-09-22 03:42:46
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